Adding SHA3 and 1.7 release plan.

[Jussi Kivilinna]

On 08.08.2015 11:59, Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just pushed the framework to support SHA3.  There is no implementation
> yet but we have the macros and build framework for it.  The plan is to
> take the Keccak-readable-and-compact.c from The reference implementaion
> which is under CC0 and use this for a first non-optimized version.
> 
> SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 are not yet supported because we need to think on
> how to fit their variable digest lengths into our API.
> 
> Jussi: Do you want to do that or shall I take it - I probably do not
> have the time for it in the next week but can do that soon after.

Sure, I'll look in to it.

-Jussi

> 
> With a basic SHA3 implementation availabale we whould consider to get
> 1.7 ready for a release.
> 
> 
> Salam-Shalom,
> 
>    Werner
> 
>